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Just weeks after the Logies, Jessica Marais has been released from her treatment program.

Jessica Marais has been released from The Sydney Clinic.

The Wrong Girl actress has just completed a four-week inpatient program at the mental health facility, which is located in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the 33-year-old will continue working with the Clinic as an outpatient.

The move comes after the Nine Network announced Marais would star in its upcoming series, Bad Mothers, which has begun production and will start filming in October this year.

Marais will star opposite Love Child’s Mandy McElhinney, and Wolf Creek’s Jessica Tovey, in the series which will explore the “dirty little secrets” hidden “behind the pristine picket fence”.

In the week leading up to the Logies, Marais’ management released a statement, saying the Love Child actress would not be attending TV’s night of nights.

“It is with much disappointment that we advise Jessica Marais is unable to attend the TV Week Logie Awards due to her health,” the statement read.

“Jess is naturally disappointed, is grateful to TV Week and all the viewers who have nominated her for the Awards this year and wishes all the nominees and her friends a great celebration on Sunday night.”

Marais’ Love Child co-star, Miranda Tapsell, accepted her silver Logie for Most Popular Actress on her behalf.

In 2014, The Wrong Girl actress spoke to the Australian Women’s Weekly about her struggle with bipolar disorder.

The mum-of-one said she was diagnosed with the condition when she was just 12 years old.

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“There’s a history of bipolar in my family and I was diagnosed at one point with bipolar,” she explained. “I’ve had cognitive therapy training, so I choose not to be medicated.”

“I have developed ways to talk myself down from any ledges I find myself on. And I am very lucky that I have a very patient partner (fellow Aussie actor James Stewart, now her ex) who supports me.”

The former Packed To The Rafters star said there was probably one day a month when she’s “an absolute mess”.

Marais said her now six-year-old daughter, Scout, and her ex-partner Stewart helped her through the hard times.

In a 2017 interview with Stellar magazine, Marais explained how many people took issue with her admission that she chooses not to be medicated.

“I’d like to be able to be inspirational to people in terms of being able to say you’re not alone, there are other people like this, but it’s not something that I feel entirely defines me and it’s not something that I want to be a how-to [or] go-to guru on.”

She went on to tell the magazine she is now on medication.

“Now I am actually [on medication], but I wasn’t then,” she said.

“And then people say it’s irresponsible or… it’s a can of worms talking about any of your personal struggles. Luckily I get to deal with some of those through the characters that I play, which I think is in some way representing those issues, by showing women who are struggling, who aren’t coping with all of the things.”

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